<p>Since your are on cc now reading the posts, what are you procrastinating from? Right now, I should be working on a biology lab report, but I am so bored with it.</p>
<p>I am procrastinating from something I'm actually enjoying: my NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Novel. I have fewer than 300 words left until I reach the 50000 word goal, and yet I'm on CC.</p>
<p>Luckily, I have no homework due tomorrow (sometimes I love block scheduling) so I'm free to write and procrastinate.</p>
<p>Wow, that sounds exciting. What are you writing about? I am so bored to the point that I have answered almost every single recent thread on the board.</p>
<p>AP Chem. 2 labs. I'll probably get 3 hours of sleep again of my own doing. Waiting for my daddy to bring me back my dinner!</p>
<p>i should be writing an essay on an engineering innovation</p>
<p>Ha, Lemonjello, I definitely can sympathize. When I have calc homework, I will do almost anything to not start it.</p>
<p>(I think you are both crazy in your choices of AP sciences. But then, I'm crazy too---AP Physics C. And yet it's easier than AP Physics B... go figure.)</p>
<p>My novel is about a senior in high school who takes an AP Physics class :-) and in the third week finds out that it's actually a magic class and her teacher is a crazy wizard who seems to have world-domination tendencies. </p>
<p>Halfway through she also finds out that she's part elf. The high school part is very useful though---I've written all the college essays I've done this month into the novel. :-)</p>
<p>woah that is actually pretty interesting!</p>
<p>NaNoWriMo!...er, yeah. I feel bad cause I only got to about 2000 words. But I was writing a tween novel and I like it, but I started reading Jane Austen and wanted to write something of more substance...and then November was taken over by Jane Austen... I just finished Emma today, and in the past two weeks I also read Sense and Sensibility (again), Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park. Now I just have to read Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice, and then I will watch all the movies ever made of all Jane Austen books, and then I will write a spectacular book with a superior plot (lol I really want to write a book about Anna Weston (born at the end of Emma to her good friend) growing up and marrying one of the Knightley boys. That would be so cool, but I'm not sure if Jane Austen fanfic is kosher.) Anyways, then I'll see if I can lower myself to the Bronte sisters and find out if they're comparable. Obviously they can't be as wonderful as Jane Austen. But I can hope.</p>
<p>Oh, and I'm procrastinating on: a rough draft of an English essay, a math review, and washing dishes.</p>
<p>On the topic of books, what are everyone's favorite books and/or authors? We already know what lavendercloud's answer is. I love Catch-22 and also enjoy the russians, especially Dostoyevsky (Brother's Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are excellent) Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) and Gogol.</p>
<p>Lord of the Rings!</p>
<p>Tolkien!</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>I doubt that surprised anyone</p>
<p>Thanks amnesia! I'm worried the elf part is too cliche (and believe me, there's more cliche-ness to it than what I said) but considering she goes to a suburban high school in NY, I suppose the fact that she's an elf is a little different than in a more traditional story.</p>
<p>lavendercloud, don't feel bad. One of my good friends (who is my sounding board for this story) got to about 1750 and stopped. And Jane Austen is definitely a good excuse! I have to start a reread soon, I reread P&P not too long ago (my first and favorite). I still haven't gotten through S&S, don't know why, but I love all the others. Emma is my other favorite. There are published sequels to Jane Austen books, so fanfic is acceptable. But I've read that some authors are not true to the characters. (On a random P&P note, I saw the movie this weekend, mostly liked it, but was scared by what they did to Mr. Bingley. Even though he was funny.)</p>
<p>ETA: Favorite authors: Jane Austen, Madeleine L'Engle, Pamela Dean, Sherwood Smith (Jane Austen lovers, she's a fantasy writer and Austen fan, great books and she posts unpublished ones on a lj community), Susan Cooper, C.S. Lewis... and lots more. :-)</p>
<p>Whoa, published Jane Austen fanfic? That sounds cool. Actually I've been thinking I want to write a Jane Austen-type story...without stealing anything from her, of course...and see if I could get it published. It's too bad that spelling and grammar rules have changed since her time (it'd be so fun to just copy her style!). And all I know about early-19th-century England is what I've learned from her books, so I'd need extensive research. Obviously I have a low chance of being published but it would be a lot of fun!</p>
<p>I haven't read any of it but I've heard of it. And I do think people write Jane Austen-like books, even if they're not set in that time period. Sherwood Smith, who I mentioned above, has written several stories with very different events and settings but whose romances remind me of P&P. :-)</p>
<p>I crossed the 50,000 word mark. :-)</p>
<p>Oh, btw, obviously Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors, but I have many others...CS Lewis, Sigmund Brouwer, Lois Lowry, Meg Cabot, JK Rowling (duh), Janette Oke, John Grisham, Philip Pullman, lots of others...</p>
<p>as nerdy as it sounds, im in the middle (more like the start) of "a brief history of time" by stephen hawking. lol im the king of procrastiantors, im supposed to be reading kaplans "procrastinators guide to the act" right now lol!</p>
<p>shark_bite, i'm reading brief history of time too!! my ap physics teacher was so pleased when he found out i was reading it, but all my friends refuse to sit with me when i'm reading it in the library lol (jk) It's definitely really interesting but I get the feeling I'm not even grazing the surface of understanding the book...oh well i guess that is to be expected of a high school senior, right?</p>
<p>lavendercloud, and since i also love to read multiple books at once, i'm also reading "sense and sensibility" for the second time. got to find a nice balance between my brain wrenching space/time knowledge and the good ol' dashwood sisters!</p>
<p>i do love the yale board:)</p>
<p>haha write now i should be writing my spanish essay and reading my next physics chapter...so much for that lol good thread idea</p>
<p>Procrastinating on: apcalc book problems (integration! eek!), apchem prelab, apus DBQ prep, aplang worksheet, french bookwork, prepping for first club meeting tomorrow, SAT II prep, SAT I prep, govschool app, and memorizing Campbell for USABO/NJSL.</p>
<p>Oh wow! Believe it or not, reading A Brief History of Time this spring was part of what gave me the idea for my NaNoWriMo novel. I have the feeling if I want to put more physics in the novel, I'll need to read it again.</p>
<p>Has anyone read Sophie's World? That's another of my favorite books and when I read Hawking's book, I went, Oh cool! The science side to the philosophy of Sophie's World.</p>
<p>I'm procrastinating on... writing my extended essay, reading primary documents for history, doing physics practice problems, and filling out all of the rest of my college applications. But I think some of you have it a lot worse.</p>
<p>I'm reading Anna Karenina, Sodom & Gomorrah (Proust), Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Life (Huizinga), and Rites of Spring (Eksteins).</p>